Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 and Premiere Elements 2.0 Classroom in a Book Collection [Paperback]

Adobe Creative Team (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0321413407 | ISBN-13: 978-0321413406 | Publication Date: December 29, 2005 | Edition: 1

The most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Photoshop Elements 4 and Premiere Elements 2 for Windows.

 

Classroom in a Book, the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, helps you learn the features of Adobe software quickly and easily. This convenient collection combines two best-selling books into one to help you master Photoshop Elements 4 and Premiere Elements 2 (for Windows).  Classroom in a Book offers what no other book or training program does–an official training series from Adobe Systems, developed with the support of Adobe product experts.

 

Adobe Photoshop Elements 4 and Adobe Premiere Elements 2 Classroom in a Book Collection contains 12 lessons covering Premiere Elements basics and eight lessons covering everything you need to know to organize, retouch, and share your photos with Photoshop Elements. You can follow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you. The book includes a DVD with all of the lesson files used in the book, making it easy to follow along with each lesson.

 

The Premiere Elements section of this book will teach you how to edit home movies using footage from your digital video camera; add titles, transitions, and special effects, and burn the finished movie to a DVD. The Photoshop Elements section of the book will show you how to correct photos like a darkroom pro and then share them in slide shows, calendars, and more. All of this information comes packed into one handy book that’s a must for any beginning Photoshop Elements or Premiere Elements user.

This book is for Windows users only.

 

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The most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Photoshop Elements 4 and Premiere Elements 2 for Windows.

 

Classroom in a Book, the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, helps you learn the features of Adobe software quickly and easily. This convenient collection combines two best-selling books into one to help you master Photoshop Elements 4 and Premiere Elements 2 (for Windows).  Classroom in a Book offers what no other book or training program does–an official training series from Adobe Systems, developed with the support of Adobe product experts.

 

Adobe Photoshop Elements 4 and Adobe Premiere Elements 2 Classroom in a Book Collection contains 12 lessons covering Premiere Elements basics and eight lessons covering everything you need to know to organize, retouch, and share your photos with Photoshop Elements. You can follow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you. The book includes a DVD with all of the lesson files used in the book, making it easy to follow along with each lesson.

 

The Premiere Elements section of this book will teach you how to edit home movies using footage from your digital video camera; add titles, transitions, and special effects, and burn the finished movie to a DVD. The Photoshop Elements section of the book will show you how to correct photos like a darkroom pro and then share them in slide shows, calendars, and more. All of this information comes packed into one handy book that’s a must for any beginning Photoshop Elements or Premiere Elements user.

This book is for Windows users only.

 

About the Author

The Adobe Creative Team is made up of designers, writers, and editors who have extensive, real-world knowledge of and expertise in using Adobe products. They work closely with the Adobe product development teams and Adobe's Instructional Communications team to come up with creative, challenging, and visually appealing projects to help both new and more experienced users get up to speed quickly on Adobe software products.

Product Details

• Paperback: 616 pages
• Publisher: Adobe Press; 1 edition (December 29, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0321413407
• ISBN-13: 978-0321413406
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,432,873 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #25 in Books > Computers & Technology > Digital Photography & Video > Adobe Premiere Elements
  • #50 in Books > Computers & Technology > Digital Photography & Video > Adobe Photoshop Elements

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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Big Help to Get Started, February 20, 2006

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This review is from: Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 and Premiere Elements 2.0 Classroom in a Book Collection (Paperback)

I have had some experience with Photoshop and Photoshop Elements, but none in Premiere. Photoshop has several new features I had not used previously. The book was great at getting me started on a new project to put together a DVD of our church's high schools grads and their family pictures, along with audio. The book includes a disk containing all the lesson materials, showing how the final product should look prior to walking you through on how to get to that final product. It does not cover all of the features of each program, but is great at getting you started and familiarizing yourself with the program interfaces.

5.0 out of 5 stars Shipped incomplete, May 18, 2009

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Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 and Premiere Elements 2.0 Classroom in a Book Collection

This purchase came from Naoke Towne, 4324 E. Villa Theresa Dr., Phoenix AZ 85032-0000.

The inside back cover was supposed to have a DVD-ROM. The envelope containing the DVD had been pulled open. The DVD was missing. There was no indication this would be the case in the description of the purchase.
I am keeping the purchase but I am not happy.

2 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Premiere Rocks, July 10, 2006

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This review is from: Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 and Premiere Elements 2.0 Classroom in a Book Collection (Paperback)

I have no basis for comparison as I got this software to make a wedding slideshow. I've done my research and read reviews that this is more difficult to learn than other programs.

I've only used a very old version of ULead before, but I must say, this program was able to do whatever I wanted it to do, Ken Burns effects, rotations, pans, zooms, etc. Granted I was forced to learn quickly, after I discovered the concept of keyframes, it was just a matter of manually doing everything the way I wanted it done.

I highly recommend this program for beginners because it provides many of the special effects, transitions, etc. for video production. Once done, you can either author a DVD or export movies into many formats including MPEG-2, AVI, WMP, and autoplay DVDs.

Although it's an Elements version, it packs many powerful features. I haven't had time to read the manuals. But I guess if I did, I would find out more functionality and shortcuts. Good luck deciding!